Mobility

Holistic approach imperative to digital transformation: Red Hat
Strategy must encompass the deployment of a gamut of ideas and should not just approach it on a piecemeal basis, cautions open source software giant Red Hat Inc.
Singapore’s Internet cutoff (and the resounding silence from the industry)
Does an ‘air-gap’ philosophy have a place and time in today’s hyper-connected world? And why is the industry so hesitant to weigh in? Benjamin Cher reports.
Digitalisation to drive Asia’s higher education IT spending to US$10.4bil
IT spending in the higher education sector in the Asia Pacific region excluding Japan (APeJ) will increase from US$8.7 billion in 2015 to US$10.4 billion in 2019, a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.2%, according to IDC.
IoT startup boost: Cisco pumps in US$10mil into Monk’s Hill
Cisco Investments has announced a US$10-million investment into Singapore’s Monk’s Hill Ventures’ innovation fund for startups, which will focus on early-stage startups working on the cloud, the Internet of Everything (IoE), big data and analytics, mobility and enterprise applications in Asean.
BlackBerry doubles down on security and privacy
BlackBerry may no longer be a mobile powerhouse but it plans to remain relevant and lead the mobile enterprise security market – through organic growth and acquisitions, as well as an increasing focus on the IoT, Goh Thean Eu reports from the BlackBerry Security Summit in New York.
DNA launches Personal Tech channel
DNA launches a new channel dedicated to covering the Personal Tech space. Founder and CEO Karamjit Singh explains why, and what the new channel will set out to do.
Accelerating healthcare through mobility and analytics
Extreme Networks’ Gary Newbold highlights the need for an agile network backbone to ride the mobility wave in healthcare and provide better management and availability of critical applications within the network.
Unified Inbox boosts tech chops with SocialGrow acquisition
Singapore-headquartered Unified Inbox has announced the acquisition of Boston-based social networking application company SocialGrow for an undisclosed amount.
APAC home to ageing and obsolete hardware: Dimension Data
Region ‘leads’ the pack with highest percentage of ageing and obsolete equipment Not necessarily causing longer downtime, only 16% of incidents hardware-related
Unified communications vision takes shape at Unified Inbox
With Unified Inbox, entrepreneur Toby Ruckert wants to change the way people manage disparate communications streams with his mission to create the utlimate intelligent personal assistant for digital lives. Gabey Goh has the story.
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